Peshawar: A US drone strike on Tuesday killed at least nine Pakistani Taliban militants in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province near the country's porous border with Pakistan amid an intensified offensive against terrorists in the restive tribal areas using unmanned aerial vehicles.

Beijing: China on Tuesday executed three ethnic Uygur Muslims from the volatile Xinjiang province for masterminding a gruesome terrorist attack at a railway station in southwest Kunming city last year that killed 31 people.

Islamabad: At least 25 people were injured on Thursday when four coaches of the Khushhal Khan Khattak Express derailed due to a militant-orchestrated blast that damaged the railway track near Pakistan's Sindh province.

Tacloban (Philippines): Pope Francis was forced on Saturday to flee a fierce storm in the Philippines that killed a papal volunteer, cutting short a mercy mission to weeping survivors of a catastrophic super typhoon.

Beijing: Twenty one out of the 22 people who went missing after a tugboat capsized on Yangtze River in China's eastern Jiangsu Province were declared dead on Saturday while one person was still being searched for but the fate of an Indian on board the vessel remained unclear.